Crime Statistics for Brown Lees, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Brown Lees in October 2024. There were a total of 28 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Brown Lees, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	12
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Vehicle Crime	4
Public Order	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	28

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Brown Lees. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Brown Lees

We've taken the ten nearest places to Brown Lees and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Brown Lees has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Biddulph (0.88 miles)	98
Packmoor (1.39 miles)	96
Newchapel (1.39 miles)	96
Lane Ends (1.24 miles)	87
Dales Green (1.24 miles)	65
Knypersley (0.62 miles)	61
Harriseahead (0.62 miles)	36
Stadmorslow (0.88 miles)	35
Newpool	28
Brown Lees	28

Where are the most violent places near Brown Lees?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Brown Lees and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Biddulph	45
Packmoor	34
Newchapel	34
Knypersley	33
Dales Green	28
Lane Ends	27
Harriseahead	19
Newpool	12
Brown Lees	12
Stadmorslow	10

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Brown Lees?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Brown Lees to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Brown Lees compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Brown Lees and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Brown Lees is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Great Chell and Packmoor	65
2	Bradeley and Chell Heath	60
3	Biddulph East	56
4	Talke & Butt Lane	51
5	Kidsgrove & Ravenscliffe	46
6	Biddulph West	45
7	Newchapel & Mow Cop	36
8	Biddulph South	20
9	Brown Edge and Endon	9
10	Biddulph Moor	7
11	Biddulph North	5

Which road in Brown Lees has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Brown Lees with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.